The Electric Age with John Horan
The Electric Age with John Horan is a music-driven exploration of technology, history, culture and change. Through storytelling, archival audio and music—primarily from the 1960s and 1970s—each program connects the world we inherited with the one we are creating, exploring not only what is happening, but why it matters and what it may mean for the future.
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Episodes
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The Electric Age with John Horan #24 - Farming
September 6, 2026
🌾 FARMING — The Electric Age with John Horan What does farming mean in the Electric Age? We plant. We cultivate. We harvest. But today we're farming far more than fields. From agriculture, tractors and mechanization to video games, experience-point farming, social media, outrage,...
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The Electric Age with John Horan - "Right Now"
August 30, 2026
TEA023 — Right Now ⏳ What does it mean to live in the present when the past is still shaping us — and the future is already arriving? This edition of The Electric Age explores NOW: the intersection where memory, history, technology and possibility meet....
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The Electric Age with John Horan #22 - Evolving
August 23, 2026
⚡ The world changes. Technology changes. We change. In Evolving, The Electric Age explores what survival really means in a world of artificial intelligence, changing work, environmental pressure, and technologies moving faster than the institutions built around them. From Kodak and the Dust Bowl...
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The Electric Age with John Horan #21 - Out of Office
August 15, 2026
T’s August. Time to get away. But what happens when the plans change — or the familiar patterns suddenly change themselves? In Out of Office, The Electric Age takes a musical road trip through planned and unexpected interruptions: summer vacations,...
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The Electric Age #20 - Making An Impact
August 9, 2026
Every action leaves a mark. From decisions that changed history to technologies whose consequences may take years to understand, Making an Impact explores the choices we make—and the world they leave behind. History, space, artificial intelligence and music come together...
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The Electric Age with John Horan | Humanity Growing Up
August 2, 2026
🎙️ The Electric Age connects today's headlines with history, music, technology... and the future. 🌎 Humanity Growing Up From Apollo 15's first drive across the Moon to today's revolution in artificial intelligence, this episode explores one timeless question: As our...
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The Electric Age With John Horan -- "When Yesterday Imagined Tomorrow"
July 25, 2026
Future. Here. Now. — When Yesterday Imagined Tomorrow What happens when science fiction becomes everyday life? This edition of The Electric Age with John Horan travels from the imagined futures of Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov to satellites, computers,...
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The Electric Age With John Horan -- "Reunion & Reinvention"
July 19, 2026
🎙️ Reunion & Reinvention: What Do We Bring Forward? ⚡🌉 Families reunite. Old friends reconnect. Nations heal. Humanity returns to the Moon. In this edition of The Electric Age, John Horan explores the deeper meaning of reunion—not as a return...
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The Electric Age With John Horan #16 -- "Choose The Future"
July 13, 2026
🎙️ Every week, The Electric Age begins with today's headlines and follows their echoes through history—not to predict the future, but to help us choose it. This week's journey connects Looney Tunes, Gordon Gekko's famous "Greed is good" speech, 2001:...
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The Electric Age with John Horan -- "The Long Revolution"
July 5, 2026
🇺🇸 What do you think America will look like when it turns 300? As America approaches its 250th birthday, The Electric Age looks beyond the headlines to explore the long story of reinvention. From the Declaration of Independence to Artemis...
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The Electric Age with John Horan -- The Dao of The Electric Age
June 28, 2026
We revisit the quiet wisdom of Kwai Chang Caine and the Taoist principle of Wu-Wei—the idea that true strength comes not from forcing events, but from understanding the currents that shape them. What does the 1970s television series Kung Fu...
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The Electric Age with John Horan -- "Hope Is A Renewable Resource"
June 20, 2026
What if the greatest innovation of the modern age wasn't the transistor or the moon rocket—but the belief that ordinary people could reinvent extraordinary lives? In this Summer Solstice edition of The Electric Age, we journey through classic rock, archival...
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The Electric Age with John Horan -- The Season of Abundance
June 15, 2026
In this episode of The Electric Age, John Horan explores "Summer: The Season of Abundance," contrasting a world consumed by conflict, rising prices, and political tension with the enduring gifts of sunshine, flowing rivers, shared music, and human connection. Woven...
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The Electric Age with John Horan -- "Now, Bread & Circuses"
June 6, 2026
☀️🌱 This week on The Electric Age with John Horan: We stay firmly in the NOW with songs from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Supertramp, Kool & The Gang, the Grateful Dead, and more. Along the way, we'll explore...
